I found it. Though I hadn't known Newton all that long, it was very hard reading. It starts: << Dear Friends and Colleagues This is the finale. I am no longer working at Rutgers. I have been on sick leave since 12/23/96. >> and goes on from there. It took me a few minutes of fiddling to get sorted in the old archive, which probably ends tonight ... even a short visit shows me so many names I wish I were still seeing. Here's a link -- no telling if it will work for you, or how long. https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/1997-January/012750.html I'm going to go take a peek at 1994, those days I never have read. Apparently this is all going to be available on my.ptg eventually. But I can see some of it tonight, so I will. Susan David Skolnik wrote: > I'ts maybe a little ironic that Susan references her date of joining - > January 1997. I had been looking for a paper copy I had made of one > of Newton's posts...probably the most gut wrenching, painful letters > I've ever had to read. My archived pianotech posts from that period > did not, as far as I know, survive one or two hard drive crashes, but > I had printed this out, for some reason. It seems somehow fitting to > reference it now, at this hour. Presumably, it's still sitting in the > archives, but I was never that fluent in their use. Maybe it's time. > Here's the information, for anyone who is interested: > > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:42:11 -500 > From: Newton Hunt <nhunt at rci.rutgers.edu> > Subject: CYA - finale > Sender: owner-pianotech at byu.edu > To: pianotech at byu.edu > Reply-to: pianotech at byu.edu > > I am extremely grateful to him for his help, over the years I knew > him, and to the list communities that grew ( and continue to grow) out > of those early efforts. > > It will be interesting to see if this is, in fact a moveable feast. > If we all find ourselves together, in a different space, and we have > our archives (?), maybe less has changed than we think. > > Hope to continue eating with you. > > David Skolnik > Hastings on Hudson, NY > > > > > At 09:06 PM 3/31/2013, Susan Kline wrote: >> Jon mentioned reinvention in his poem -- this seems a good >> time to share my plan for my own list reinvention. >> >> I'm going to googletech -- eventually. But first I have >> some projects to complete. >> >> 1. get into the archive and read the whole list from the >> time it started till the time I joined (Jan. 1997.) Save >> the best of it in word processor files, which can easily >> be moved to different computers on a thumb drive. >> >> and, >> 2. Open up three old computers, still working but long >> retired, all of which have some sorted pianotech emails >> and a huge volume of unsorted pianotech emails. Save the >> best and add them to the word processor files from 1. >> >> Empty the computers, but save them -- they are old. They will >> work so long as they never are allowed within several miles >> of the Internet, so that they cannot "phone home" and wreck >> their nice old simple functional software, the kind modern >> computers carefully refuse even to load. (Has anyone noticed >> what seems to me to be a tendency for modern software to be >> closer to a leasing rather than a purchasing in perpetuity >> experience? They've figured ways to keep us buying.) >> >> I still even have the physical media for the old programs. >> I can use them for basic business, writing, and amusement >> and they will work just as well as when they were the >> latest thing. >> >> So -- see you guys later on, googling away. I hope, in fact, >> to see a few old faces who haven't been on the ptg pianotech >> for years. Well, one can wish ... >> >> There was life and there was piano technology before pianotech -- >> and then there was life and piano technology after pianotech, >> three times richer, ten times larger. The only drawback I see >> has been sitting too long and gardening too little. Maybe a >> little determination can sort that out. >> >> Best to all -- >> Susan >> >> Jon Page wrote: >>> Now we lay this down to rest >>> Newton's and other's forum was best >>> We'll plod along with best intent >>> With time and effort to reinvent >>> >>> RIP >>> Newton & Friends >>> >>> Thanks for the memories >>> . >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> >> Version: 2013.0.3267 / Virus Database: 3161/6217 - Release Date: 03/31/13 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20130331/7974c881/attachment.htm>
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